Not
that the national media notices much, but the federal government under
President Barack Obama has been supplying guns to Mexican drug gangs
for quite a spell. With only a few print media bothering to cover the
story, Obama’s Justice Department has been discovered secretly
supplying firearms to Mexican drug lords using taxpayer “stimulus”
monies. If that wasn’t bad enough, guns supplied to these Mexican
miscreants by federal agents were used to kill at least one US Border
Patrol agent. After the death of the BP agent, California Congressman
Darrell Issa launched an investigation into the matter and uncovered
what most anyone would correctly describe as a vast government conspiracy
to supply firearms to Mexican drug cartels. As a result of Issa’s
congressional investigations, numerous heads at the ATF have lost their
jobs--or more correctly--have been “reassigned.”

Two
days ago, the Washington Post reported, “The ATF head has been
reassigned amid an investigation into a controversial U.S. gun-trafficking
operation, part of a broader shake-up at the Justice Department in which
the U.S. attorney in Phoenix also stepped down, officials said Tuesday.

“Kenneth
E. Melson, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms
and Explosives, will become a senior adviser on forensic science in
the department’s Office of Legal Policy. He will be replaced as
acting director at ATF by B. Todd Jones, the U.S. attorney in Minnesota,
the department said in a statement.”

The
Post report went on to say, “In a sign of the continuing fallout,
Dennis Burke, the U.S. attorney in Phoenix who worked closely with ATF
and provided legal guidance for “Fast and Furious,” [codename
for the ATF gunrunning operation] has resigned, the department said
Tuesday. He is being replaced on an acting basis by his deputy, Ann
Scheel.

“An
assistant U.S. Attorney in Phoenix, Emory Hurley, who helped oversee
“Fast and Furious,” is being transferred out of the U.S.
Attorney’s Office’s criminal division and into the civil
division. That means he will not be involved in criminal cases.

“The
multiple moves amounted to an extraordinary shake-up for a Justice Department
that has been under fire for the gun-trafficking probe, which critics
consider ATF’s biggest debacle since the deadly 1993 confrontation
in Waco, Tex. ATF is part of Justice.”

Back
in July, World Net Daily ran a story featuring Larry Pratt of Gun Owners
of America in which he warned the American people of the ATF’s
horrific scheme by saying, “Ten million dollars, and one of the
ways they were spending it was a paid FBI informant who was a drug dealer
they had flipped. So he was buying lots of guns with that stimulus money.”

Pratt
went on to say, “We can say there's one thing that was stimulated
by the stimulus bill and that was the Mexican undertaker business. Mexican
authorities say that 150 people were murdered using these guns.”

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World
Net Daily also reported, “Firearms law analyst and writer David
Codrea believes that even if there is evidence to prove that known criminals
used taxpayer money to get guns to take to Mexico, nothing is likely
to be done with the evidence.

“‘If
left to Holder's Justice Department, nothing, because it shows this
had to be top-level DoJ-authorized,’ Codrea explained.

“Reports
say other federal agencies have also been drawn into the operation.
The DEA, FBI and upper-level DOJ officers, including the U.S. Attorney’s
office in Phoenix, have been named.”

WND
goes on to state, “Pratt also believes that some of the guns were
purchased by the Mexican cartels directly from federal agents.

“‘One
of the founders of the cartel, one of the top 14 directors if you will,
a guy whose nickname is El Mamito, has said that he was buying guns
directly from the federal government,’ Pratt explained.”

And
one more quote from the WND report: “Pratt said he believes for
the guns to go across at a designated location, there had to be coordination
between several federal law enforcement agencies.

“‘There
had to be some kind of a deal with the Border Patrol. . . .We know that
in the ’09 meeting that set up Fast and Furious, those four or
five agencies were all part of the deal,’ Pratt said.”

What
makes the ATF’s criminal gunrunning conspiracy even worse (if
that’s possible) is the fact that, much like his superiors Obama
and Holder, Melson has a career-long reputation for wanting to curtail
the right of law-abiding US citizens to keep and bear arms. Yes, ladies
and gentlemen, in the weird world of Obama/Holder/Melson, law-abiding
US citizens cannot be trusted to keep and bear arms, but US tax dollars
and federal police agencies are used to provide firearms to Mexican
drug gangs. Then, when Mexican drug gangs using firearms supplied by
the US Justice Department murder one of their own Border Patrol agents,
the only retribution that follows is for underlings to be “reassigned.”

Seriously
folks, have you ever known of any federal agent being brought to justice
for even the most egregious violations of life and liberty? Where was
the first federal agent brought to justice for the murders of over 80
mostly old men, women, and children outside Waco, Texas? Was agent Lon
Horiuchi brought to justice for murdering Vicki Weaver? That monster
shot Vicki in the face with a high-powered, scoped rifle as she stood
in her kitchen holding her little baby. Not only was this creep not
punished, he was later promoted and continues to work in law enforcement
today. (Horiuchi was charged with manslaughter in Idaho State court,
but US District Judge Edward Lodge dismissed the case. In justifying
his horrific ruling, Lodge said that the Supremacy Clause of the US
Constitution “grants immunity to federal officers acting in the
scope of their employment.” Way to go judge! Heil Hitler!) Oh!
And by the way, Horiuchi was a federal sharpshooter at Waco, too.

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So,
one more time, criminals inside the US federal government have been
found out! I hope Congressman Issa will not be content to let the matter
die with the reassignments of a few underlings. The American people
have been enduring criminality, bloodshed, and death perpetrated by
rogue elements inside the federal government for far, far too long!
It is time now for true justice to come to the US Justice Department!

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World Net Daily also
reported, “Firearms law analyst and writer David Codrea believes
that even if there is evidence to prove that known criminals used taxpayer
money to get guns to take to Mexico, nothing is likely to be done with
the evidence.